Good to be Back!

I just spent almost 2 weeks in the hospital. It was horrible. I hope I never have to do that again. I have spent the last week or so seeing different docs and adjusting meds. It has been NO fun. The whole time I just wanted to feel good enough to blog. SO....now I do...and I have been thinking and ...

Midnight Rant 07: Copyright

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/G64m3-PFkwI[/youtube] (Note this was recorded about a month ago and I didn't get around to publish it at the time. Also, I was scared.) Links: TGIB on Kiva TGIB on Kickstarter TGGrid Neb's Racer Kit Neb's Death Race  

5 things to pay before the money runs out

I've been quiet the past two months, which is mainly attributed to a much-needed holiday vacation and subsequent stressful getting-back-into-work period. All this is complicated by the fact that El's currently staying in the hospital, but hopefully will be out again sometime this week. Anyway, as you can imagine, there wasn't much time to do anything productive, so I don't ...

Kandy and Victory Modan

For those of you that have followed my blog for very long at all, you will know that I model hair for Ali & Alli.  This CUTE little updo is one of their newest releases aptly named Kandy.  When Alice gave us the hair she simply asked for "something sweet" . . .and I can see why.  I LOVE the ...

3 of a Kind – Jeans

A few weeks ago, as I was looking through the feeds and flickr photostreams I came across a pic of an avi . . .just a simple pick.  The picture showed an avi in casual clothes, various poses but all together and I had a thought . . .perhaps I should start a category in my blog where I shot ...

Siss Boom, Eclectica and R2 Fashion

I was going to do a Q&D for this post . . .I PROLLY should have done a Q&D (Quick and Dirty) for this post, but I once again became so enamored with it once it was done, that I just HAD to talk about it a little.  There are SO many things about it that are SO pretty. It has ...

Midnight Rant 06: The Hypergrid

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arblVyxn0qQ[/youtube]   Links: Interview with Justin Clark-Casey Hypergrid Business - The Hypergrid is a social web Chuck Prophet on Archive.org Douglas Coupland and William Gibson on the KWLS William Gibson in Second Life (Part 1 | Part 2) Jeremy Bailenson on Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life and New Worlds Aloha

Ever an’ Angel

Don't you hate it when people aren't nice? Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes it seems like some people just want to be hateful and don't give two squats about what others want or need, or what is right or wrong. They live on the “me” level. And I find that SO disconcerting. It is NOT that I have never “visited” that ...

The Missing Image 04 – Meeting Justin Clark-Casey

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNWidQrgf8[/youtube] Links: Open Simulator Overte Foundation Justin Clark-Casey's Master's Dissertation on Internet-Scale Virtual Environment Architectures Hypergrid Unity 3D Second Life Experimental teleport between Second Life and OpenSim Diva Distro Kitely OpenSim Creations Topics: 1:30 How do you become an OpenSim core developer? 8:00 Can OpenSim become the "3D web"? 14:00 Does OpenSim need asset security? 24:00 Does OpenSim need feature parity with Second Life? 31:30 How do you decide which features are in OpenSim core? 37:30 The state ...

Donna Flora A to Z C is for Cerry

   Several years ago, when I was just a little bitty avi, I stumbled upon a shop named Donna Flora.  I still do not remember how I found it.  It was probably through one of the numerous groups that I am a part of...always looking for a bargain.  But I remember looking around and thinking that I had found THE ...

Midnight Rant 05: OpenSim and Unity 3D

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/JnUPx0dF5h8[/youtube] Links: Archive 3D Blenderswap Pathfinder's Virtual World Presentation Lag in Second Life and OpenSim and how to deal with it

e!…Ingenue, Essences, Dark Mouse

    A while back my wonderful partner, Vanish suggested that I stop making my blogs SOOOO detailed and just blog about the one or two items of each outfit that really caught my attention.  That is SOOOO hard to do when there are SOOOO many pretty things just staring back at you!  The funny thing about it, is that this outfit ...

Archive for August, 2010

category Tracked Daily

To the Other Side

by El | 0 » | Aug10 10
And so the packing begins! <squeals> Only 3 more days until I begin the journey of a lifetime! But when I think about it, I guess that is pretty much what the last year has been. It has been both wonderful and stressful at the same time. I know you called me so quickly when I got home ...
category Tracked Daily

Never Goodbye

by El | 0 » | Aug9 10
Why do I try? I do I try to fool you at all? I was hurriedly trying to tell you good bye today so that I would not cry. I could feel that awful ache in my soul knowing that I would have to leave you once again and so I desperately tried to put on my ...
category Tracked Daily

Rest for the Weary

by El | 0 » | Aug8 10
I SLEPT! <dances a little happy dance> Finally! It was GOOD sleep too! Now if I could just figure out how that happened I would do it again! <giggles> Perhaps it is the beginning of a routine? We can hope. I DO know that when I am with you I feel SO relaxed. ...
category Announcements, Music Videos

The Grey Inn Between

by V | 11 » | Aug7 10
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/1B2O04TQ20A[/youtube] The Grey Inn is a hypergrid meeting place. To access it, set your home to a hypergrid enabled region and teleport from there. The adress is tgib.co.uk:9069 for access from HG 1.0, tgib.co.uk:9070:tgib for HG 1.5 i6 and tgib.co.uk:9710:tgib for OSGrid & compatibles. Inworld chat at the inn is linked to the channel #tgib on irc.freenode.net; chat gets transferred between both ...
category Tracked Daily

Nothing Less Than Everything

by El | 0 » | Aug7 10
You are always SO careful with me, love...so tender and kind. Sometimes it almost overwhelms me! Just as you know me, I know you as well...and I KNOW that you often hold back on things to be kind to me. I wish SO badly that I did not have all the “baggage” that I have. I must admit...it ...
category Tracked Daily

Friday

by El | 0 » | Aug6 10
Oh love...I have started this over and over....I cannot find anything to write...all I can think...is..”OH MY GOD! IT IS FRIDAY!” FRIDAY! FRIDAY! That officially makes it one week...OMG! ONE WEEK! I'm not sure I will be able to think of anything else for the next seven days. From this point on every ...
category Tracked Daily

Of Being Born

by El | 0 » | Aug5 10
She closed her eyes and waited. It HAD to be the most horrible sound on the planet, the sound that the program made when it ended her call with him. She always felt like it was a knife stabbing her in the side. If he was not watching she would close her eyes and scrunch her face ...
category Tracked Daily

The Way You Love Me

by El | 0 » | Aug4 10
Today was SO amazing for me, love. To SEE you SOOOO soft and sweet...WOW. You will never know how much it meant to me. Of course, I KNOW you are that way...and I often imagine it...but to SEE it....was SOOOO incredible. And all I could think to myself was....”What did you EVER do to deserve such ...
category Tutorials

How to create a PG version of your skin

by V | 0 » | Aug3 10
In response on a recent comment, here's how you can create PG versions of the skins from this site by baking the clothing textures directly on them. For this tutorial, we will be using Gimp. First, open the skin texture of your choice in Gimp, and the clothing texture along with it. Select the window with the clothing texture and chose ...
category Tutorials

How to use TGIB clothes

by V | 0 » | Aug3 10
The clothes on this site are provided as source layer textures (unless they are sculpted clothes). The avatar mesh is divided into three groups - bottom, top, and face, but the face is available for skin and tatoo layers only, so we just need to chose between the bottom and top part. The clothing layers cover different areas of the ...